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One of Lincoln’s Final Acts
President Abraham Lincoln was shot on the evening of April 14 one hundred and forty-five years ago. He died early in the morning on the following day. Among the items ...
Omaha Charley’s Native American Artifacts
"Omaha Charley" Bristol wrote that Standing Bear presented him with this scalp shirt in 1876. It is a fine example of work that appears to predate the Reservation ...
Timeline Tuesday: Labor Day Parade, 1894
Omaha's Labor Day parade of 1894 was a "wonderfully successful affair, and was viewed from railings, steps, windows and sidewalks by fully 30,000 people," according to ...
Timeline Tuesday: An Ice Union of Two Cities
January 12, 1888, marked not only the famous blizzard but a happier event -- what the Omaha Daily Bee on January 13 called "An Ice Union of Two Cities." Despite the ...
Timeline Tuesday: Mud Springs
Mud Springs is located in south-central Morrill County, Nebraska, near present-day Dalton. According to Paul Henderson's article on the well-known Overland Trail site in ...
Timeline Tuesday: A Murderer’s Pardon: Governor Poynter and John Benwell Kearns
Governor William A. Poynter. NSHS RG2413.PH0-3
When John Benwell Kearns (aka John Benwell) was released from the Nebraska State Penitentiary on May 23, ...
Flashback Friday: The Illustrator’s Pencil: John Falter from Nebraska to the Saturday Evening Post
John Falter was a Nebraska boy who made good. His artistic ability, drive, and genial nature helped him become one of the most successful American illustrators from the ...
Flashback Friday: J. C. Penney’s Middle Name Really Was “Cash”
Grand opening of a new J. C. Penney store in downtown Lincoln, November 16, 1950. NSHS RG2183-1950-1116-2
James Cash Penney wasn’t a Nebraskan, and he ...
Flashback Friday: Poor Niobrara!
The town of Niobrara, located along (or as shown here, in) the Missouri River in northeast Nebraska, flooded in 1881. NSHS RG2118-5-14
Poor Niobrara, ...
Marker Monday: Stanton County
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Named for Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton in 1862, Jacob Hoffman and Francis Scott filed the first homestead applications in the county on ...
Marker Monday: Austin
Marker Text
Austin was named in honor of Simeon Austin, a circuit rider. In 1877 Austin post office was established on the farm of Oliver S. Brown and ...
Marker Monday: Oketo Cutoff
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From October 1862 until March 1863 stagecoaches of the Central Overland California and Pikes Peak Express passed near here along the Oketo ...
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